Every person who ever thought he had a right to assert, and went boldly and asserted it, himself, or jointly with others that shared his convictions, was a direct actionist.
Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.
My art and profession is to live.
The joy in life is his who has the heart to demand it.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
